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5 Things, September 18: Who Will be Stoughton's Next Town Manager?

Five Things You Need to Know Today: Who Will be Stoughton's Next Town Manager?; Remembering Shayla Lutz; Bingo at the Senior Center; and more...

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1. Who Will be Stoughton's Next Town Manager?

After interviewing the three finalists for the position last Thursday (September 13), the Stoughton Board of Selectmen meet Tuesday, September 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Yaitanes Room on the third floor of the Town Hall to decide who will be Stoughton's next permanent Town Manager.

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Paul Shew of Franklin; Kenneth Fields of Boca Raton, FL; and Michael Hartman of Canton are the finalists the Town Manager Search Committee presented to the Board following a lengthy search process.

Most recently, Shew was a City Manager in Rye, NY (2003-2009) and has experience as a manager/administrator in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Fields started his career in municipal government in Pittsburgh, PA and most recently had been an administrator/village manager in a pair of Florida towns (from 2008-2012). Hartman is the current Town Manager in Jaffrey, NH (2007-present) and prior to that worked in municipal government in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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Read more about each candidate and their respective interviews with the Board of Selectmen here:

  • Stoughton Selectmen Vet Town Manager Candidates; Interim Manager Feaster Not Among Finalists
  • ABOUT TOWN: Is There an "Ace" Among Stoughton's Town Manager Finalists?

2. Remembering Shayla Lutz

Visiting hours for Shayla Lutz, the three-year-old Stoughton girl who died on September 14 after she was involved in a fatal pedestrian accident, route: {:controller=>"articles", :action=>"show", :id=>"shayla-lutz-3-of-stoughton-identified-as-toddler-killed-in-pedestrian-accident-near-hansen-school"} --> in front of the Hansen School, will be held at the


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